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Voices: Catastrophic Tory election results show the writing is on the wall for Sunak

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“Seismic” is how Keir Starmer described the result of the by-election in Blackpool South and, just for a change, a bit of political hyperbole is justified.

Indeed, the historically large swing to Labour of 26 per cent from the Conservatives in the seat, the third biggest since the war, was only one of many tremors and rumbles that augur badly for Rishi Sunak’s chances of staying in power once the general election comes – and they’ll be destabilising his leadership over the next few days as more results shake the political order.

As Sunak himself dramatically put it the other day, things around in the course of the next few months, and, with all due respect, neither he, Jeremy Hunt nor anyone

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